1. Yesterday, Trump's executive order crossed a new line.
No longer are the NYT Op-eds, thin veneers of pseudoscience, and false claims about trans people needed to justify discrimination.
We enter an era where our humanity itself is officially questioned.
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Normalize tipping women.
They're all pissed off, all the time.
Well, the music lol. That can be interpreted as a curse, sure.
Good for you.
The trick is to make your own trinkets and artifacts.
She's a cis woman, that's why. But we get our own benefits.
joy and rage are simply two sides of the same coin
I will pray for you tonight and watch with glee tomorrow.
Imagine you are beautiful, but you spend your whole life in the dark. Suddenly, you are dragged into the light and as you ascend you are transmogrified into a mockery of your former self by forces beyond your comprehension.
And you ask why he is sad.
You are a fool.
fake looking sea creature thing
in the arms of the angel
fly away from here
I...
Huh.
Disappointing, but not surprising. Fuck these people.
The fact that Elon and Vivek are the only ones driving the message around a possible government shutdown on Saturday tells you everything that you need to know about the state of American politics right now, including the utter weakness of Democrats.
Institutional traditions or individual morality be damned.
Maybe not. But I'm not even talking about this time or that time in particular, but about anti-electoralism in general. I simply feel any way leftists can put ourselves at an advantage to organize labor or create better conditions for marginalized people is something we should explore.
Liberals capitulate to reactionaries when it benefits them. No shit. It benefits them now. There is a world where it wouldn't have benefitted them. I don't know why you don't understand this.
You perpetuate the system anyways by living in it. At least one party was marginally better for queer people and labor interests.
But anyways I'm just dooming.
Look, I'm not saying union organizing doesn't do anything. I'm IN a union. But the unions down here are defanged by nature. Looking back, what actually did something was organizing mass protests during the time of BLM. But I'm not even sure that could happen now, given the state of things.
Personally I think dunking is kind of shit at this point. If you're trying to reach people (kind of important for leftist activism) and you're acting like a 12 year old you've lost the plot. I'm glad you can at least see that.
We can create the conditions for us when the collapse happens. But who is to say it will happen? Why not do anything in our power, even engaging in electoralism, to create the conditions that will allow us to dismantle capitalism? Even if electoralism doesn't work. That's my thing.
away from cracking down on activists. And no I didn't mean literally firebombing a Walmart.
insurrection, nevermind revolution, other than engaging in the electoral process in some sort of way. Whether it's by voting or activism or... Fuck man, protesting? Anything that will make these clowns back off. That or actually firebombing a Walmart, to use a Twitter meme, to ward these people
another GOP led government. While I'm not a fan of the Dems, the last time the GOP got into power they turned the legal state against leftists to a degree that we still haven't recovered from. I don't know any way to dismantle a police state that is keeping people from engaging in any sort of
I feel like formal organization isn't getting us anywhere at this moment. I wasn't meaning to imply that electoralism is the only option leftists have: far from it. But we need to create the conditions in which we CAN organize. Or revolt in any meaningful way. Right now we are looking at
"Revolt or perish"... I mean... There is also just continuing in utter fucking misery.
Pretty sure I didn't say that did I? Did I say we shouldn't attempt organizing or any other forms of praxis? Do you think not voting does anything at all?
